Shot Caller (2017)
CharlieNSinCity 1 points 2 months ago. (Contains Spoilers)

Some pretty good acting, so much so that I decided to give what I already knew would be an idiotic storyline a chance. Seeing people comment and rate it 5 stars gave me hope. The acting wasn’t spectacular, the great acting was done by non-main characters. Acting 7.5/10 , Storyline 1/10. So I rate this 4.25 no not out of 5 but 4.25/10. Someone commented this was “the best gang crap thing” they’ve seen since the 90’s. Well take something like Menace to Society for example. He has a childhood that’s believable, his teenage years are believable, his early 20’s are believable and bang, he died how he lived and the way that most who live the life go out. In this it’s like they took some things that do happen and went completely off the rail with it. It’s like they talked to a handful of guys who did time or ran the streets and some of them said how certain people they know started politicing behind bars and turned 2 year sentences into 10+ years. However when a guy goes in for manslaughter, has to do less than 2 years and when all is said an done he’s running the Aryan Brotherhood. It wasn’t just the gang stuff either, they also had a P.O. who was seriously running full on investigations in which he had more power than the ATF, could hand out immunity, could authorize swat and other tactical teams to do operations targeting weapons deals that were made between parties across state lines. Like the FBI and ATF were like “you saved a girl from a chomo, we shall follow your lead. IDK now 4.25/10 sounds way too high. lmao.